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The Influence of Tone Inventory on ERP without Focal Attention: A Cross-Language Study
Joint Authors
Zheng, Hong-Ying
Peng, Gang
Zhang, Caicai
Minett, James W.
Wang, William S-Y.
Chen, Jianyong
Source
Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
Issue
Vol. 2014, Issue 2014 (31 Dec. 2014), pp.1-7, 7 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2014-08-28
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
7
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
This study investigates the effect of tone inventories on brain activities underlying pitch without focal attention.
We find that the electrophysiological responses to across-category stimuli are larger than those to within-category stimuli when the pitch contours are superimposed on nonspeech stimuli; however, there is no electrophysiological response difference associated with category status in speech stimuli.
Moreover, this category effect in nonspeech stimuli is stronger for Cantonese speakers.
Results of previous and present studies lead us to conclude that brain activities to the same native lexical tone contrasts are modulated by speakers’ language experiences not only in active phonological processing but also in automatic feature detection without focal attention.
In contrast to the condition with focal attention, where phonological processing is stronger for speech stimuli, the feature detection (pitch contours in this study) without focal attention as shaped by language background is superior in relatively regular stimuli, that is, the nonspeech stimuli.
The results suggest that Cantonese listeners outperform Mandarin listeners in automatic detection of pitch features because of the denser Cantonese tone system.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Zheng, Hong-Ying& Peng, Gang& Chen, Jianyong& Zhang, Caicai& Minett, James W.& Wang, William S-Y.. 2014. The Influence of Tone Inventory on ERP without Focal Attention: A Cross-Language Study. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine،Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1034675
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Zheng, Hong-Ying…[et al.]. The Influence of Tone Inventory on ERP without Focal Attention: A Cross-Language Study. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine No. 2014 (2014), pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1034675
American Medical Association (AMA)
Zheng, Hong-Ying& Peng, Gang& Chen, Jianyong& Zhang, Caicai& Minett, James W.& Wang, William S-Y.. The Influence of Tone Inventory on ERP without Focal Attention: A Cross-Language Study. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine. 2014. Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1034675
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1034675